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Anybody else see this horror show? (Aug. 25, 2012)

25 August 2012 at 11:04 am
Anybody else see this horror show?
Just seen a disturbing spot on TV3, featuring a snippet of a discussion, about blogging standards, between puffy ad-man Dave Walden and the grouchy right wing “pundit” Bill Ralston.
Now, you’ll probably have some idea of who Ralston is. But, even if you did once know who Dave Walden was, you will (if you have any sense) have banished the memory of his gross presence from your conscious mind, so here’s a brief reminder of his career: After several decades making a lot of money purveying mediocre advertisements to New Zealanders, Dave Walden emerged from deserved obscurity to national contempt in 2003, during the height of Americas Cup hype, when he got together with sports radio bigot Murray Deaker to run the ridiculous Blackheart campaign, which was soon forced to disband after one of its “patriotic” followers banned “the traitor” Russell Coutts from his restaurant and other Blackguards started to make threatening phone calls to the families of Coutts’s American crewmen.
Anyway, here’s that godawful TV3 promo….
Two unprepossessing men, one of them simply enormous, sit at a round table and smilingly spit poisonous vacuities…

RALSTON: Blogs are inherently brutal.
          WALDEN: Ho ho ho! How do you rein in           Whaleoil, for instance? Ho ho ho!
RALSTON: Or The Standard? There are some really VICIOUS comments on that blog!

[END OF CLIP]
Incredibly, TV3 is using this insalubrious twosome as a TEASER for an upcoming programme.
  • kiwi_prometheus8.1
    25 August 2012 at 11:24 am
    “RALSTON: Or The Standard? There are some really VICIOUS comments on that blog! ”
    Well he’s not lying. Just look at Felix and her side kick Queen of Manhaters.
    I stopped watching TV years ago. Sometimes when people realise I don’t know what they are on about, when they babble on about their favorite crime/talent/cooking/talk show, they look at me like I’m from another planet.
    • Morrissey8.1.1
      25 August 2012 at 11:43 am
      I stopped watching TV years ago.
      A major reason you and other sensible people don’t watch much or any TV is because of the baleful influence of mediocre commentators like Ralston and mediocre advertising men like Walden.
      • kiwi_prometheus8.1.1.1
        25 August 2012 at 12:00 pm
        True.
        There is something about the nature of TV that makes it mediocre or worse.
        I can watch David Lynchs movie “Muholland Drive” repeatedly – it helps that it is almost incomprehensible – but the news that it was going to lead into a TV series left me cold and happy that it never happened.
        Even ad free TV doesn’t improve it enough to get me interested.
        Some wild life docos and some international news like that German DW program maybe.
    • Dr Terry8.1.2
      25 August 2012 at 12:04 pm
      I no longer watch TV News, for all I seem to get is either John Key or Sonny Bill Williams in quite equal proportions (our nation’s “gods?)
    • Descendant Of Smith8.1.3
      25 August 2012 at 12:24 pm
      yet KP you’re the bastion of reasoned arguement and peaceful intentions.
      “Now if someone had gone up to him and beaten the cunt to within an inch of his life that would be awesome.”
      At least you hate people you don’t like with equal fervour.
      Your imagining of what goes on in others peoples heads does worry me though. It’s not healthy to have all those thoughts running around in there.
    • QoT8.1.4
      25 August 2012 at 2:18 pm
      *mwa* *mwa*
    • felix8.1.5
      25 August 2012 at 5:55 pm
      “Just look at Felix and her side kick Queen of Manhaters.”
      Jeez k_p I’ve already explained this to you. QoT and I are the same person.
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